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Ask HN: is tester-error in the AppStore review process acceptable?
OSX AppStore review times are through the roof: 26 days just to begin testing. Today, we received a rejection on our app. The tester included a screenshot of the "error" and steps to "replicate." The "steps" were to log in to Facebook in our app, and the "error" was a screenshot of the app telling him he entered the wrong password. Obviously, the ludicrous AppStore policies have been the topic of much discussion. Legally, there's nothing developers can do but suck it up. Yet, I have to wonder: can this not be construed, in some form, of infringing upon a company's ability to do business, when arbitrary mistakes by Apple can cost other companies large sums of money (in the form of time)? What do you think? Is it even worth getting worked up about?
+1 for Hyde. +2 for Emacs Org mode to xhtml
It's a state senate election, which relatively few people pay attention to. Or even care about, though they really should. So a tiny advantage could make a difference.

Quick! Name your state senator! Name their opponent in this year's election!

But when I think this through...why shouldn't voters be made aware of things she said in public? If that's how people want to decide how to vote...well, people make decisions about voting based on equally irrelevant things all the time.
Lesson learned: stop linking to evil content.
Yeah, I'm really sorry the Argentinian government didn't let the country go to the vultures in detriment of a few rich people... we should just let the FMI take over and run the country so a few funds don't lose money.

Seriously? You are telling me that a government protecting it's citizens interests is wrong? I'd like to see you repeat that argument when the Chinese start kidnapping American citizens to get their money back.
Todon't: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/todont.html
Why would Facebook need to visit your site to record that somebody liked it?
The only difference between recreational drugs and prescribed medicine is your doctor's prescription.
Here's our URL: http://perfectaudience.com (just realized it's not in here)
Wouldn't Facebook chat be the right comparison for gchat?
I think this would be ok if they said upfront that this is a simulation of a meeting and so to pretend that you are someone attending the meeting, and so explicitly take it out of the context of an interview. When I've been interviewed, we are often friendly toward each other and it's not uncommon for them to just want to chat and go on tangents, especially for throwaway questions that assess fit and culture. And you wouldn't know as the interviewee if this was such a throwaway question.

Basically, no matter what reasons you have for thinking people should do the right thing, you have to keep in mind that their reference set for YOU is all the people who have interviewed them in the past, many of whom were likely dumber and less competent than you. They are going to be acting accordingly.
"Shalini Verma, principal analyst at Gartner, noted that Apple's sales have not been affected by Jobs' death."

Where's the vulnerability? This article appears to be one person's opinion. Shalini Verma's name appears 7 times in this article, who is just another anonymous analyst.
> And those requirements kept growing. If my calculations are correct, the standard setup for engineers now is a machine with 20 or more gigabytes of RAM just to RUN the software.

Close. In 2011, all the engineer desktops got upgraded to 36Gigs. At the time, the eng department still hadn't figured out how to deploy without duplicating hundreds of jar files everywere.
> In their research, Duman and others show that in a series of steps ketamine triggers release of neurotransmitter glutamate, which in turn stimulates growth of synapses. Research at Yale has shown that damage of these synaptic connections caused by chronic stress is rapidly reversed by a single dose of ketamine.

There's burgeoning evidence that depression is tied to a lack of neurogenesis (creation of new brain cells), which may also be tied to serotonin levels. Some believe that the reason SSRIs take weeks to have antidepressive effects, even though serotonin levels are restored almost immediately, is that it takes a while for that to stimulate new brain cells. It's far from certain though that serotonin has anything to do with depression or neurogenesis. The atypical antidepressant tianeptine (currently unapproved in the US, but widely used in western europe) apparently reduces serotonin levels while boosting neurogenesis, the study of which is summarized well by Stanford neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky [1]:

> … tianeptine prevented many of these stress-induced changes. These included the spectroscopic alterations, the inhibition of cell proliferation, and a significant increase in hippocampal volume (as compared with stress + vehicle animals). Of significance (see below), tianeptine did not prevent the stress-induced rise in cortisol levels.

The restoration of hippocampal volume is important because it's been shown that low hippocampal volumes correlate with emotional abuse in adolescents [2] (also by Yale researchers). This was breathtaking for me - bad parenting literally causes brain damage.

Special K and tianeptine aren't the only efforts at curing depression through neurogenesis. Neuralstem [3] is testing a drug in humans to treat major depressive disorder by restoring hippocampal volume, with a controlled study to complete early next year. That is the only new drug I'm aware of. Regardless, the serotonin model of depression, the one which produced Prozac etc. isn't the last word, and it's looking more likely that a dearth of new synapses may be the culprit in clinical depression.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC60045/

[2] http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/DomesticViolence/3002...

[3] http://www.neuralstem.com/pharmaceuticals-for-depression
NASA Believes 3D Printing is the Future of Space Construction
Somehow gmail manages to auto suggest and complete email addresses for me. Sounds a lot like they tracking who I correspond with.
And quality control.
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http://www.rudrakshacollection.com/ssc-Pocket-Yantras-31.htm
The problem of most todo apps is that they focus on productivity (do as much as possible) rather than effectiveness (do the right thing).

Try an app that helps you keep your goals in mind in your everyday workflow.

http://weekplan.net (my app) is inspired by the "Put First Things First" methodology from Covey, and it works for many.
Make Chiptunes In Your Browser With This Awesome, Simple Sequencer
I don't think it's about the language - it's about knowledge. A backend specialist can learn Javascript but may not know the nuances of working with the DOM, or optimizing for pagespeed, or the important front end libraries. Similarly, a front-end specialist may not have all the experience necessary to diagnose problems in a deployment. That's one reason I don't buy the "front end developers can now do backend development because of node.js" argument. Any sufficient competent backend developer can start writing Python code in a day. What that developer doesn't get in a day is understanding deployments, popular Python libraries, the ecosystem, etc.
Hacked Facebook account: how to repair damage?
Hah, I bet all the new engineers were like, SWEET! I get a system with 36 gigs of RAM!

Then their hearts sank when they realized why.
Hey Michael!

Was there a recent discussion? I'm fairly certain everyone has moved on from Rails, and I'm not sure if they're still using it anywhere at LinkedIn. There are a few folks using JRuby, but I believe they're using Sinatra:

https://www.google.com/search?q=jruby+sinatra+linkedin
Yale scientists excitedly, repeatedly explain to anyone in the quad how ketamine vanquishes depression within hours, in, you know, a million million ways (yale.edu)

I've read too many Onion headlines to ever read headlines like this again.
Apple search technology is maddening
I wanted to pick-up a book on REST API.

iBooks on the iPad: typed "REST".

Results: "No rest for the dead", "Rest stop surprise", etc.

How many results did it pull-up? Don't know.

Can I narrow it down? Nope.

If I want to find something relevant it seems that I have to scan through pages-upon-pages of irrelevant crap without any knowledge of how far I have to go.

OK, my fault. Try "REST API".

One book.

Well, how about "RESTful"?

OK, I did a little better here. I got a bunch of relevant books on the first page.

How many results? How many pages? Don't know.

OK, I tried to get cute: "REST programming".

No results.

Let me fire-up iTunes on my computer and search there.

"REST".

I get a pile of results in all media types. I am here to search for books. I click on Books. "No rest for the wicked" again. No idea of how far the rabbit hole goes. Also, I am looking at a slow paginated interface. Lists would be better. But no, I have to page through the results a whole 16 entries at a time.

"RESTful"

I have "Books" already selected.

All results again!

Click on "Books".

Now I have to click on another "Books" "see all" link; "Audiobooks" on top.

The good news is that most of the books on the page are relevant.

How many did it find? How many pages? Don't know.

Let's try Amazon.

Search is set to "All".

"REST"

323,473 results

Top 9 are relevant.

Click on "Computers & Technology" under "Books" on the left side (under "Department").

157 results. Nearly all relevant.

"Programming" says it has 82 results; "Web Development" 57; "Computer Science" 11, etc.

Click on "Programming". Bingo!

After typing my keyword and hitting enter plus two additional filtering clicks I have all the relevant results I could want.

On iBooks or iTunes, as far as I could tell, there's almost no way to get there.

I am buying the book on Kindle.
Who'd of thunk 'softy would be in with such a PR win...they look like robin hood or the everyman all of a sudden standing up to the intrusive, corrosive greed of the advertsiers... o.0|
On the point of neurogenesis this is also the theorised mechanism of Electroconvulsive therapy for Treatment-resistant depression - it's been interesting watching the evidence for the mechanisms of the 2 different treatments slowly grow
and set and setting
Agreed. Treating mental illness and preventing self-medication is the only approach I can think of that would actually constitute a legitimate effort to reduce demand for actual dangerous substances.

Yes, some of those that are illegal are certainly physically addictive but at the other end of the spectrum are the likes of LSD and Ketamine, so far off the map that if you could even find someone engaging in addict-like behavior they very likely already have a much larger mental problem.
I don't know if the products are "duller". My Macbook Pro Retina has excited me more than any product Apple has released in the last decade. I've had it for over 3 months and I still can't get over how much I enjoy the screen.
I liked that article, it's a question I've asked myself numerous times. I love programming, been doing it for about 14 years now and I regularly find renewed interest.

I think one point that's maybe not stressed out enough here is that the passion for the activity itself doesn't necessarily have to do with a passion for the job related to that activity. I very often do things at my work I honestly wish I didn't have to do, a lot of it is really, really numb. Consequently, sometimes I think I wouldn't want to do that for too long, but then I realize the problem is the job itself, not programming.

There's also the question of whether I'll still be able to keep up with all the new stuff when I get older. I've often relied on the fact that I can adapt and learn things pretty quickly. Then I think back and it turns out that it's not so much a 'mechanical' problem, it's more of motivation problem. So I suppose as long as you can keep yourself motivated, you'll keep going.
Screenshot to CSS (inspired by .monalisa)
I can program a string reversal with my eyes closed, tied up in chains, upside-down, while holding my breath. Or whatever.

The point is more that for a person with a given skill level, interviews can be stressful and make them perform below that skill level. I try to structure my interviews such that people get more comfortable and I don't ram their head into a metaphorical wall. I get all the same information, but without all those hard feelings.
Alright, I guess I incorrectly inferred that you were referring to Tennessee in general from your experiences within Chattanooga.
I think the now infamous Jim Cramer video, where he explains how to manipulate Apple's stock price over the short term, should be a pre-requisite before reading any piece on Apple by an "analyst": http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b1b_1237128864
Seeking Tech Cofounder
Great "idea" - lots of investor interest - nothing like it exists - very simple business model - consumer web/phone app. If you can build the beta, we'll get funded - http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/cpg/3317491960.html
Pure CSS Image Slider
Total sales are up by 51%, stock price has risen by 70% (from article), yet the article goes on to say Apple is vulnerable and would have never released anything as incomplete as Maps under Jobs' leadership (Siri?).

Constant improvement of their successful products, and a new iPhone design might not excite everyone as much as the original iPod/iPad/iPhone but I don't think you can call Apple "vulnerable".
I've heard that sometimes they will deny unless you are heading straight to your destination and starting work within 3 days. Good to see it worked out for you.
Aus here. Too much lag on movement for me to be playable.
Wonder if this will exacerbate the effect of everyone only seeing views that agree with theirs and decreasing exposure to different (/evil) perspectives.
> Why wrap String (which is already a monoid) inside Maybe?

Because it's a bit easier to write the tail end of the logic in generic terms. You can go talk to c_wraith on Freenode#haskell if you want.

> You can just use concat; if the result is the empty string then print the number. If you want it to work for any monoid, then use mconcat, and test for equality to mempty.

You can find other discussions about why flexibility is important.

> And why introduce monad comprehensions if you're just introducing monoids?

Because it's a really nice syntax? Compared to explicitly using guard, anyways.
Is a "share" a subset of a "like"? Maybe they can have links count as shares but not likes.
Only relation being that 64k is 2^16 I imagine.
Speaking of Larry Niven, my impression after reading Ringworld (in addition to "holy shit that was good") was that Dyson Spheres were kind of a non-workable, and that a species who'd advanced far enough to actually make one could probably just colonize another system anyway.
Scientists Create Fertile Eggs From Mouse Stem Cells
Combating depressions and suicides. In many cases there's also outside causes that begins downward spirals.

People often suggests therapy and/or pills that changes you. But they rare suggests exploring external causes, and external solutions.

For example, it may be better to drug bullies rather than victims...
Even though it's 3x the price, I'd take the Form 1: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/formlabs/form-1-an-affor...

3x the price and 10x the machine.
Wifi, y electrosensibilidad efectos claros en los niños
Chronic use of ketamine also destroys the bladder.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14200961
I am entertained that Firefox gave me a "Ghostery's tracker list has been updated." notice at the same time I read this article.

Retargeting is one of the creepiest abuses of the web, chasing people across the Internet after visiting your site once.
The Walking Dead : la série diffusée en clair sur NT1 bientôt
NT1 ouvre les portes aux zombies de The Walking Dead. La série d’AMC créée par Frank Darabont et Robert Kirkman arrive sur la chaîne du groupe TF1. Andrew Lincoln, alias le shérif Rick Grimes, arrive.
> I thought the OP was a joke, BTW.

Well balls to you too, I guess? Or not. We're all just trying to have a good time here. And from the look of this thread, people are having fun.

I think golfing fizzbuzz into an unreadable mess sorta misses the point, but most people here are software engineers because they love to code and build stuff. So let's enjoy the moment.

> why on earth would one want to hire somebody who loves complexity for its own sake?

You remind me of: http://wondermark.com/333/

It's not complexity for its own stake. I daresay the functional patterns tend to be simpler. Certainly moreso than things like Visitor or AbstractFactory.

> To me, the following is the clearest way to express this (in C anyway). I suppose it says a lot about me!

Your version is almost identical to the Ruby version I listed. And it's an appropriate solution for C.
Solar at the scale of a Dyson Sphere really is just a giant fusion reactor.
Researchers build a toolbox for synthetic biology - MIT News Office
Amoi launches new Amoi Neptune V5 low-cost Tegra 3 quad-core phone
OneWebSQL - O/R mapping for Java
I'd rather be a zombie than continue on as I do today
So what? The only thing keeping my emails private is my email provider's discretion.
Node has some pretty unique benefits, I save a good $1000/month from switching from .NET on dedicateds to NodeJS on a PaaS (Heroku), and that was after 2 - 3 years of writing and rewriting and optimizing the .NET stuff.

Biggest improvements came from persistant connections to redis/mongodb and polling for updated information independently of requests so there was no cached-or-fetch shenanigans at all in some areas.
To bring coding to the masses, we may have to reinvent what programming is
Gangnam Style in wetsuits
VERY FUNNY! A bunch of wetsuit lovers doing gangnam style
CSSDesk - Online CSS Sandbox
You misunderstood me.

This would not be for likes - but for visits.
Keep in mind this is Zynga, so this could just be the normal fuzzy-accounting we've seen in record and movie industry recoupables for decades. Even if they're not playing games with O's numbers to short them on the earnout, at the end of the day I still see it being possible that Z is just stuffing outside debt into OMGPOP because it makes better PR sense.
That's a great analysis. It really underscores how rudimentary
a symptomatic diagnosis is.
I wonder how much of that write down is due to Zynga's management of OMGPOP. Their games went from fairly fun to complete spamballs (popups and constant, invasive advertising) in a matter of weeks after the acquisition. That caused almost everyone I knew who played it to stop. Draw Something has unplayable responsiveness on older Android phones after the "updates".
Yes. 2s/aim/initially aim/

I rarely use Javascript (certainly not for email) so I wouldn't know about all the latest Gmail "features". :)

What I was hinting at was a sort of evolutionary pressure on Google... to start using personally identifiable information. That pressure being Facebook as a perceived competitor.
I'll be explaining it over and over

An ironic plight.
Yeah, this seems like common confusion. Slides are generally used for the presenter, not the one he presents his stuff.
Adobe's Source Code Pro vs Envy Code R & Consolas in VS2012
Web browsers also seem to be using RGB for storing colors internally. You can specify colors in HSL, but retrieved values are only in RGB. E.g. if you write "hsl(100,0%,0%)" in your CSS file then the color will be represented as #000000 in DOM/CSSOM. This is especially annoying when you are trying to implement color picker because information about hue is lost if saturation or lightness are low.
Which leads us to "why in the world would I need beefy servers for Varnish+Wordpress, when I could get away with a micro EC2 instance or a free Heroku dyno".
With great context comes great information!
What features would you like to see added soonest in your favorite C++ compiler?
The problem with S3 is that I hate www. in front of my domain name.
The performance improvements have probably NOTHING to do with node.js but with the re-architecture goals set by the team:

"For our inevitable rearchitecting and rewrite, we want to cache content aggressively, store templates client-side (with the ability to invalidate and update them from the server) and keep all state purely client side."

Better understanding of the problem and experience running the system were probably key for building the new high-performance architecture. Obviously, old one lacked these big advantages.
Functional sets in C++
This is really great for Canadians. Less risk packing up all your stuff (paying for all the bag fees) and potentially get denied.

It does look like it costs $325 to file this I-129 (Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker). This is in contrast to applying at a port of entry where the cost is $50/$56. Am I mis-reading?
Ask HN:Is this really the way 3/4 of the HN community feel?
I just read this story today and was surprised by this comment. If its true that is very sad, especially considering the average age of the HN community.
"""Well, that sucks for the 3/4 of HN commenters on the Kixeye thread who came to the conclusion that the contractor's writing style was damning to the story's veracity."""
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4603611
I don't think it's so much "important" vs "non-important" as "regular business" and "evil". Zynga is known for spamming you with friends request, cheap gambling simulators such as *Ville, Mafia Wars (iirc), stealing from anyone they couldn't buy, etc. And lately their "offers" have been getting more and more gray, or so I heard.
What was the solution to key management? Just wondering what it looks like since the CA system doesn't work, and the GPG approach of key servers is too difficult for the laymen!

As for the spam issue, I am not sure that will ever get solved.
Why I Would Kick Ass at Kiip
That's what I thought but she vehemently denies adding me. Though, yes, I am open to the idea that upon looking at friends of friends, some unintentional clicks may have gone unnoticed.
Has the Great Twitter Migration to App.net Begun?
I flagged it because in my browser it was as useless as a lead dirigible.
That plus the theme is hard to customize and give it a personal touch. Most Octopress websites look the same, apart from some brave souls with enough time on their hands. More themes would help here ... although btw, you can easily change the fonts.

I'm also on Jekyll because I prefer something simpler that I can bend to my will ... http://bionicspirit.com
Wait a sec, just because someone misused a term like "DRY" doesn't mean the principle is wrong. Re-representing data models in other execution environments is indeed a repetition - it just normally isn't identified as one, for some reason.

Adding a database field often has repercussions throughout the stack (not to mention throughout the rest of the system).

What's really interesting is to realize that DRY is traditionally only applied to static code, rather than runtime state. But personally I think it should apply to both.
> new antidepressants that turn more people into zombies

This is a terrible stereotype that damages perceptions of people who happen to have mental illness.
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